Victor Davis Hanson

LATEST STORIES BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

HANSON: Why the Left will cut Biden loose

Republican pundits and conservative activists are debating whether they can win in 2024 with the successful Trump agenda, but without the controversial former President Donald Trump as their nominee.

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June 23, 2022 Columnists

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with governors, labour leaders and private companies launching the Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership as he drops by a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 23, 2022.

HANSON: What the Jan. 6 committee might have been

Congress should investigate fully the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol – and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites. But unfortunately, it never will. Why not?

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June 16, 2022 Columnists

Chairperson Bennie Thompson (D-MS) swears in J. Michael Luttig, former U.S. federal judge and advisor to former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, and Greg Jacob, former counsel to Mike Pence during the third public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, at Capitol Hill, in Washington, June 16, 2022.

HANSON: The subordinate citizen

I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry.

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June 9, 2022 Columnists

A United Airlines worker assists travelers after the Biden administration announced it would no longer enforce a U.S. COVID-19 mask mandate on public transportation at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia April 19, 2022.

HANSON: Will Trump run again?

Former President Donald Trump has signaled he will announce his presidential intentions after the November midterm elections. Yet his record of endorsements is quite mixed. By the sheer numbers of winning primary candidates his stamp of approval is impressive, but in a few of the most important races, not so much.

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June 2, 2022 Columnists

Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 26, 2022.

HANSON: A cabinency of dunces

As the nation sinks inexplicably into self-created crisis after crisis, debate rages whether President Joe Biden is incompetent, mean-spirited, or an ideologue who feels the country’s mess is his success.

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May 26, 2022 Columnists

U.S. President Joe Biden reacts as he makes a statement about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas shortly after Biden returned to Washington from his trip to South Korea and Japan, at the White House in Washington, May 24, 2022.

HANSON: Is Biden's 'success' our mess?

If an administration deliberately wished to cause havoc on the border, to ensure fuel was nearly unaffordable, to create a crime wave, to spark 1970s hyperinflation, and to rekindle racial tensions, what would it have done differently than what President Joe Biden has done?

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May 19, 2022 Columnists

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the March jobs report, during a speech in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 1, 2022.

HANSON: Imagine the unimaginable

The traditional bedrocks of the American system – a stable economy, energy independence, vast surpluses of food, hallowed universities, a professional judiciary, law enforcement, and a credible criminal justice system – are dissolving.

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May 12, 2022 Columnists

Demonstrators in support of reproductive rights protest outside of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in Chevy Chase, Md., near Washington, D.C., May 7, 2022.

HANSON: Losing the people? Then change the rules

Court packing – the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes – used to be a dirty word in the history of American jurisprudence.

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May 5, 2022 Columnists